What to do if your breasts are swollen and have lumps

After giving birth, mothers will consider breastfeeding their babies, because breast milk is the most nutritious for babies. However, breastfeeding has many costs. First of all, it will cause breast pain. Since it is the first time to feed the baby, the pain is still very severe. Many mothers will have severe breast swelling after giving birth. If the breasts swell severely and lumps appear at this time, then timely treatment is required. So what should be done with breast swelling and lumps?

It is quite common to have breast lumps after childbirth. The key is whether you can handle it correctly in your life, so that you will not experience breast pain when you sleep at night. I hope you can squeeze out the milk that your baby cannot absorb.

You can use a breast pump, apply a hot towel to the lump, and push it hard towards the nipple with your hands. Be sure to endure the pain. If you don't push it away, you may get mastitis at worst, or the milk will overflow at best. Also, her lumps must be sucked out. You can apply a hot towel first, and then suck them out, or you can go to the hospital and let the baby suck them out. Otherwise, the lumps can easily cause acute mastitis. In severe cases, you will have a fever, and surgery will be required to cure it.

It is a lump caused by milk stasis. The causes of milk stasis include: nipple hypoplasia (too small or inverted) interfering with breastfeeding; too much milk or the baby sucking too little milk, resulting in the milk not being completely emptied; milk duct blockage affecting milk discharge. You can use hot water for hot compresses and local massage. After breastfeeding your baby, you can use a breast pump to help you express milk and try to express as much milk as possible. If the lump does not go away, or if fever or unbearable pain occurs, you need to go to the hospital and receive timely treatment under the guidance of a doctor to avoid mastitis.

You can use hot water for hot compresses and local massage. After breastfeeding your baby, you can use a breast pump to help you express milk and try to express as much milk as possible. Go to a Chinese medicine store and get some deer antler powder and mix it with boiled water, and your mammary ducts will be unobstructed. You can use a hot towel to apply and try to let the baby feel better. Most obstetrics and gynecology hospitals have massage and milk duct smoothing services, you can try that. It should be fine.

The above methods are ways to improve the situation of postpartum women with milk lumps. Such improvement methods are very effective for postpartum women with such conditions. If a postpartum woman encounters such a situation, don’t panic or be anxious, and don’t blindly use some methods to treat it. This will not only affect the milk, but may also affect the breasts. Such symptoms also require you to see if you have mastitis. If so, you need anti-inflammatory treatment.